Um....errr.....WINCE!

[patgund]

Gakked from xydexx and blackthornglade. I'm of very MIXED feelings here.....

Bugs Bunny gets an extreme makeover - Kids’ WB network updating Looney Tunes characters

"The WB network will take the famed Looney Tunes characters as models for a new children’s series, “Loonatics,” that will air on Saturday mornings starting this fall. The characters’ descendants — Buzz Bunny and the like — will be superhero action figures for the cartoon set in the year 2772.

Okay, on first look, this is a *horrible* idea. But I remember people thinking that "Tiny Toons" was a bad idea as well, and that was actually pretty funny. Still, I can't say I like the way the new characters are drawn.

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[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

FYI, the link doesn't seem to work.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Just tried it with Safari and Firefox, no problems at all. Weird

Here's the bare URL

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6989380

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

This is a bad idea. Remember the legal headaches when they tried to change Superman's costume? The licensees are going to rebel when they try to change the iconic characters and that will be that.

The only thing that will save this show is superior scriptwriting and I'm not sanguine about those chances. Druther see more Tiny Toons or Animaniacs really.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

This is a bad idea. Remember the legal headaches when they tried to change Superman's costume? The licensees are going to rebel when they try to change the iconic characters and that will be that.

I suspect that's why they're calling them the "decendants" of the originals. That way they can claim they're new characters completely.

Blegh.

[firedrake-mor.livejournal.com]

I agree with Beloved Wife. I'd rather see more Animaniacs or even Hysteria!

I can almost see why the character styles -- they're a little more like anime, which is way popular for the target audience. It's gonna take some good stories, though; even with an iconic character, "Duck Dodgers in the 24th And a Half Century" was not well received.

Besides, Daffy's already tried the superhero biz -- "Stuporduck" was, um, a problem.

[morgan-gw.livejournal.com]

Ah, but the Green Loontern is, at least from the meager clips we've been able to see, truly inspired :-).

Someday it will come out on DVD and we'll be able to see the whole thing...

[marymont.livejournal.com]

I was never permitted to watch Saturday morning cartoons, and looking at most of them now, I can understand my parents' restriction.

However, this is dreadful. On an artistic basis, you can't tell the characters apart. On an historic basis, I see it as sacrilege.

The style they have adopted is very similar to inner city graffiti--very sharp and angry. Is this what we want to communicate to this generation's children? Or are the Young Turks at WB merely interpreting that the kids are already surrounded by this anger and thereby are inured to it? They want to have something new and hip.

I'm glad my kids had MisterRogers.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one. One person's comments on the character design was: "they are dark, these loonatics, fighting an endless war against unseen enemies. Their fists are clenched, the sympathy and humanity has vanished. None of these characters will dress up like a girl for a joke or shave Elmer Fudd's head daintily. These are distilled essences of hostility and adolescent rage in cartoon form. "

The more I'm reading about this show, the more I'm thinking It's A Very Bad Idea.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

A preview:

http://members.toast.net/zrath/LoonaticsPreview.mov

I think you both have the heart of the matter... that this new thing has none of the original heart.

Yeah, I'm behind on my LJ reading, so? ;-)

[morgan-gw.livejournal.com]

But Roland and I had to comment, after seeing the pic, that we agree this has a high potential for suckage. Or, as we put it, it may well suck with the force of a thousand black holes ;-).